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502 6 | joy of high quality and a fruitful promise. ~ ~The Church,
503 1 | people, so many victims of fruitless combats, so many people
504 6 | generation should in some way fulfill the hope of the preceding
505 7 | that the recent Council fundamentally desired?[69] Assuredly we
506 4(49) | Patres Apostolici, ed. F. S. Funk, 1, Tubingen, 1901, p. 261;
507 3 | announcement, from the angel Gabriel, and her Magnificat was
508 1 | and to plumb the immense gap that always exists between
509 4 | bridegroom decks himself with a garland and as a bride adorns herself
510 4 | has clothed me with the garment of salvation, he has covered
511 6 | to present itself as the gateway to the future. Even in its
512 1 | has great difficulty in generating joy. For joy comes from
513 3 | ceasing, in a burst of joyful generosity, and the Son is seen as
514 6 | full of meaning and rich in generous promises. From the encounter
515 5 | learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and
516 Conclu | thinking, for example, of Georges Bernanos -- this evangelical
517 3 | inability of man to accept "the gifts of the Spirit of God, for
518 3 | shone. You have made their gladness greater, you have made their
519 3 | while the world parades its gloating satisfaction. But the disciples'
520 4 | in a hymn of exultation glorifying Him who has raised them
521 3 | of the paschal sacrifice, going through love to death, and
522 3 | so many signs of divine goodness: all the people rejoiced
523 4 | richer harvest, when the grains which fell alone are multiplied
524 3 | kingdom of God. But it is granted on a steep road which requires
525 4 | me blessed."[47] She has grasped, better than all other creatures,
526 3 | the field. He immediately grasps God's attitude towards creation
527 3 | Father, in a burst of joyful gratitude, in the Holy Spirit. ~ ~
528 6 | reject -- as some today are gravely tempted to do -- the inheritance
529 3 | life, is not reduced to groping for the way; nor does he
530 Conclu | agitated members of various groups therefore reject the excesses
531 7 | wavered in the combat or grown lukewarm in victory."[73] ~ ~
532 6 | understand it, to love it, to guide it and to open up to it
533 5 | cannot go forward without guides. These are the pastors,
534 4 | most extreme abnegation, half blind, he was able to chant
535 5 | Saint Luke? On the other hand, what meeting is more overwhelming
536 6 | inheritance of truth and holiness handed down to this decisive moment
537 2 | the Mosaic Passover, which happened as the prefiguring of the
538 5 | we must today cease to harden our hearts, in order to
539 4 | feeling which our century is harshly experiencing: "Sometimes
540 3 | joy of the sower and the harvester, the joy of the man who
541 4 | the kingdom. It makes them hasten actively towards the heavenly
542 2 | you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through,
543 Intro | dear sons and daughters: health and the Apostolic Blessing. ~ ~
544 1 | men need to know joy, to hear its song. We sympathize
545 6 | aspect of a commercial, hedonistic and materialistic civilization
546 6 | your fresh energies, to the heights, to accept the effort of
547 4 | usually like an image of hell -- into the antechamber
548 1 | Do people perhaps feel helpless to dominate industrial progress,
549 | Hence
550 4 | the invisible light that hides from its faith."[53] ~ ~
551 1 | situation nevertheless cannot hinder us from speaking about joy
552 6 | fulfillment in Christ and the next historical stage of the People of God. ~ ~
553 4(51) | Origen, In Lucam XV Hom.: PC 13, 1838-1839. ~
554 1 | many people torn from their homes! These miseries are perhaps
555 5 | shall be my theme of joy, my honor and my boast before all
556 2 | of the Promise, and who hoped against all hope, receives
557 1 | from speaking about joy and hoping for joy. It is indeed in
558 3 | His dwelling place: dulcis hospes animae.[40] Together with
559 4 | dwellings in the Father's house, and for those whose heart
560 | however
561 4 | Joy is the result of a human-divine communion, and aspires to
562 7 | ourself must render witness humbly, patiently and perseveringly --
563 3 | of God. Happy you who are hungry now: you shall be satisfied.
564 1 | spiritual. Money, comfort, hygiene and material security are
565 2 | the real joy repeatedly hymned by the Psalms -- the joy
566 1(7) | Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I-II, q 31, a. 3. ~
567 5 | it is in no way with the idea of discouraging any of you,
568 3 | relationship of love which is identified with His existence as the
569 2 | People of God, before its identity has been unveiled. ~ ~Thus
570 6 | false novelties, atheistic ideologies and certain deleterious
571 1 | of God. ~ ~But how can we ignore the additional fact that
572 1 | someone's presence, of an ill-defined emptiness? On the contrary,
573 3 | darkness of souls: Et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis meis.[39] ~ ~
574 4 | particular vocations, it illustrates the mystery of Christian
575 3 | the Son gives the Father immeasurable love: "...I love the Father....
576 6 | preoccupation for their immediate future, are well aware of
577 3 | lilies of the field. He immediately grasps God's attitude towards
578 1 | loved as the supreme and immutable good.[8] Poets, artists,
579 4 | Holy Spirit inspires an impassioned longing for the coming of
580 6 | experience in themselves the impetus of life, the expectation
581 Intro | Spirit, we invite you to implore from Him the gift of joy. ~ ~
582 6 | illusion takes on a certain importance. This generation is waiting
583 6 | correspondence between the soaring impulse of a being which is naturally
584 Conclu | here on the original and inalienable dimension of the human person:
585 1 | flesh and blood"[11] are incapable of this. But Revelation
586 3 | the first moment of His Incarnation, is manifested: "You are
587 3 | world."[32] Here there is an incommunicable relationship of love which
588 4 | moment of her conception, the incomparable dwelling-place of the Spirit,
589 7 | even though it be amid the incomprehension of many -- to the charge
590 3 | you have made their joy increase...."[38] The Easter Exultet
591 4 | Church is not diminished but increased by persecutions. And the
592 2 | The joy of salvation then increases and is transmitted throughout
593 3 | in such a way that we are indebted to ancient Israel for some
594 1 | praised if one were to remain indifferent to the outward and inward
595 7 | soul," this "one mouth" are indispensable to the Church and to humanity
596 7 | as a whole, and for each individual within it, a movement, a
597 1 | Hope, and the value of individuals, are no longer sufficiently
598 1 | feel helpless to dominate industrial progress, to plan society
599 3 | of life. It is a mutual indwelling: "...I am in the Father
600 3 | disciples were confirmed in an ineradicable joy when they saw the Lord
601 3 | given to the Church as the inexhaustible principle of her joy as
602 2 | trials due to the culpable infidelities of the chosen people and
603 1 | reality and the desire for the infinite. ~ ~This paradox, and this
604 4 | the vast and profound joy infused already here below into
605 3 | with Him, man's heart is inhabited by the Father and the Son.[41]
606 6 | gravely tempted to do -- the inheritance of truth and holiness handed
607 3 | latter always remains, in his inmost being, in joy, because he
608 5 | lives into harmony with the innermost appeal of their conscience,
609 4 | with the sacrifice of the innocent Servant. But she is also
610 4 | is but the first of the innumerable witnesses of Christ. How
611 3 | This certitude is inseparable from the consciousness of
612 Conclu | let them not be afraid to insist time and time again on the
613 1 | pontifical documents have indeed insisted on this point. Even though
614 Conclu | considered it fidelity to the inspirations of the Holy Spirit to ask
615 4 | torment, the Holy Spirit inspires an impassioned longing for
616 6 | in its very excesses, the instinctive reaction of many young people
617 1 | likeness of God, and therefore instinctively oriented towards Him as
618 4 | when the world came forth intact from the hands of the Creator.
619 1 | justice and charity for the integral development of all! The
620 6 | period of this history more intensely experience in themselves
621 7 | welcome one into their own intimacy and divine unity: "If anyone
622 7 | also recognize a prophetic intuition on the part of our predecessor
623 4 | Jesus: "His soul is then inundated with joy, like that of the
624 7 | the same is true of his invincible faith, which has not wavered
625 4 | mother of hope and of grace, invoke her as the cause of their
626 5 | all those who are deeply involved in family, professional
627 1 | indifferent to the outward and inward witness that God the Creator
628 7(73) | Great, Sermo XCVI, De natali ipsius sermo V in anniversario
629 5 | sufferings, not indeed with irony, but to achieve therein
630 7 | of mankind. But it is an irreplaceable service, because it has
631 2 | hope, receives when his son Isaac is born the prophetic first
632 5(58) | Jer. 33:8-9. ~
633 5 | of the great pardon, as Jeremiah announced it: "I will cleanse
634 4 | adorns herself with her jewels."[48] With Christ, she sums
635 3 | baptized on the banks of the Jordan, this love, which is present
636 Conclu | with His life; and we are journeying towards the blessed transfiguration
637 Conclu | towards the humble and joyous service of the disinherited
638 5 | Holy Year -- a promise of jubilation for all the people -- is
639 3 | given the Son the power to judge, the power to dispose of
640 3 | has not allowed death to keep Him in its power. The resurrection
641 7 | College of Bishops -- the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
642 3 | persecute you and speak all kinds of calumny against you on
643 7 | crowd nor the threats of kings; and the same is true of
644 5 | their lives. God's joy is knocking at the door of their physical
645 1 | supreme good, remains without knowing Him clearly, without loving
646 4 | generation of Blessed Maximilian Kolbe, the authentic disciple
647 1 | present good fortune an(l artificial paradises cannot
648 5 | Come to me, all you who labor and are overburdened, and
649 3 | false happiness, we do not lack opportunities of noting
650 1 | material security are often not lacking; and yet boredom, depression
651 3 | of the orphan: tears and lamentation, while the world parades
652 3 | on those who live in a land of deep shadow a light has
653 | last
654 7 | from God. Of this only lasting city we have not yet contemplated
655 | latter
656 3 | who weep now: you shall laugh."[35] ~ ~In a mysterious
657 3 | described in the Gospel as the law of Christian blessedness,
658 3 | Father loves me because I lay down my life in order to
659 3 | Him, like Martha, Mary and Lazarus. His happiness is above
660 Conclu | pressing appeal to all the leaders and animators of the Christian
661 7 | received from the Lord, that of leading the flock and of confirming
662 3 | expectation of Israel, had himself leapt for joy, in His presence,
663 5 | rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle
664 5 | small number of wise and learned people? We cannot forget
665 3 | is a presence which never leaves Him all alone.[25] It is
666 2 | the People of God will be led, in the death and resurrection
667 Intro | those who are willing to lend their hearts and minds to
668 6 | address ourself at greater length to the world of the young.
669 4(53) | Letter 175. Manuscrits autobiographiques,
670 6 | Truth, equally profound and liberating is the joy of divine Truth
671 3 | Gospel of Saint John that lifts the veil, by giving us the
672 Intro | joy of the Holy Spirit. Likewise we are truly able to adopt
673 3 | the birds of heaven, the lilies of the field. He immediately
674 Conclu | with the truth. There is no limit to love's forbearance, to
675 5 | the present time? Have we limited our exhortation to a small
676 5 | Reconciliation. Following the line of the best spiritual tradition,
677 3 | consolation"[16] comes, is linked to the coming and presence
678 5 | our hearts, in order to listen to the voice of the Lord
679 4 | to whom she entrusts her littleness. And yet it is not that
680 6 | this moment of grace: youth lived in the proper way. What
681 1 | not perhaps a matter of loneliness, of an unsatisfied thirst
682 5 | sin? What distress more lonely than that of the prodigal
683 1 | On the contrary, we are looking for the remedies capable
684 3 | the woman who finds her lost coin, the joy of those invited
685 4 | St. Dominic, St. Ignatius Loyola, St. John of the Cross,
686 4(51) | Origen, In Lucam XV Hom.: PC 13, 1838-1839. ~
687 4 | the soul: per crucem ad lucem, and from this world to
688 7 | wavered in the combat or grown lukewarm in victory."[73] ~ ~It is
689 4 | could one fail to recall the luminous figure and example for our
690 4(50) | Saint Leo the Great, Sermo LXXXII, In Natali apostolorum Petri
691 3 | the angel Gabriel, and her Magnificat was already the exultant
692 4 | celebrates her faith: "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit
693 2 | through, I will make you majestic for ever, a joy from age
694 7 | towards Him that we are making our inner journey. ~ ~And
695 4 | love of which it is a happy manifestation. Joy is the result of a
696 1 | and love, and even before manifesting Himself personally according
697 3 | experienced our joys. He has manifestly known, appreciated, and
698 7 | the Spirit, in a personal manner, as a disciple of Jesus,
699 4(53) | Letter 175. Manuscrits autobiographiques, Lisieux.
700 Conclu | disinherited and of those on the margins of society. For joy cannot
701 6 | present world crisis, which is marked by a great confusion among
702 3 | the feast, the joy of a marriage celebration, the joy of
703 2 | age.... For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your
704 2 | virgin, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom
705 3 | their home to Him, like Martha, Mary and Lazarus. His happiness
706 4 | could declare with the martyr Ignatius of Antioch: "It
707 4 | from this Roman See the martyrdom of the holy Apostles Peter
708 4 | earth and in glory. What a marvelous echo the prophetic words
709 1 | better known, reported by the mass media -- at least as much
710 4 | Ages, among many others, a master of spirituality in the East,
711 4 | promised to the Church: Mater plena sanctae laetitiae.
712 1 | Money, comfort, hygiene and material security are often not lacking;
713 6 | commercial, hedonistic and materialistic civilization which is still
714 7 | invited you to make, either materially or in spirit and intention,
715 4 | our generation of Blessed Maximilian Kolbe, the authentic disciple
716 4 | for Himself procures the maximum of joy[52] In the West,
717 3 | souls: Et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis meis.[39] ~ ~
718 1 | known, reported by the mass media -- at least as much as the
719 4 | from the ordinary, but she meditates on the least signs of God,
720 5 | On the other hand, what meeting is more overwhelming than
721 3 | and His tenderness when He meets children wishing to approach
722 3 | illuminatio mea in deliciis meis.[39] ~ ~Paschal joy is not
723 Conclu | overwhelming accent to the Memorial of Pascal: "Joy, joy, joy,
724 3 | yours and all you have is mine."[27] The Father has given
725 1 | efforts to secure at least a minimum of relief, well-being, security
726 3 | to this seed of joy. The miracles of Jesus and His words of
727 2 | accomplishes, by pure grace and miraculous power, the promises of the
728 1 | personally according to the mode of revelation, God disposes
729 1 | source. It is spiritual. Money, comfort, hygiene and material
730 2 | Such is the joy of the Mosaic Passover, which happened
731 7 | individual within it, a movement, a Passover, that is to
732 | much
733 4 | grains which fell alone are multiplied in their rebirth."[50] ~ ~
734 1 | society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure,
735 4 | in me a living water that murmurs and says: 'Come to the Father.'"[49] ~ ~
736 3 | say the rosary, the joyful mysteries thus place us once more
737 3 | shall laugh."[35] ~ ~In a mysterious way, Christ Himself accepts
738 2 | of time,[12] this joy is mysteriously announced in the midst of
739 6 | certain deleterious forms of mysticism, will not this generation
740 4(52) | Cf. N. Cabasilas, De vita in Christo,
741 4 | is sufficient to cite the names of some of those who have
742 5 | my boast before all the nations of the earth."[58] And just
743 6 | impulse of a being which is naturally receptive to the appeals
744 1 | of joy. ~ ~There is also needed a patient effort to teach
745 7 | Church, but so great are the needs and the perils of the present
746 Conclu | Eucharist. How could they neglect this encounter, this banquet
747 1 | fundamental duty of love of neighbor, without which it would
748 | next
749 4 | spirituality in the East, Nicholas Cabasilas, endeavors to
750 3 | by the angel on Christmas night is truly for all the people,[17]
751 5 | repentant sinner than over ninety-nine virtuous men who have no
752 1 | this "happiness." Its most noble expression is joy, or "happiness"
753 1 | speak here of the sadness of non-believers, when the human spirit,
754 7 | according to the apostolic norm. For then although this
755 Conclu | and daughters, is it not normal that joy should dwell in
756 6 | given to it quickly becomes nostalgic or ridiculous. But this
757 4 | cause of their joy: Causa nostrae laetitiae. ~ ~After Mary,
758 3 | not lack opportunities of noting the psychic inability of
759 4 | mystery, at which they are nourished with His Body and Blood.
760 6 | spiritual vacuum of false novelties, atheistic ideologies and
761 3 | the darkness of souls: Et nox illuminatio mea in deliciis
762 5 | our exhortation to a small number of wise and learned people?
763 3 | awaiting a Savior, and for the numberless people made up of all those
764 4 | Assisi, in whose footsteps numbers of Holy Year pilgrims are
765 1 | Constitution "Gaudium et spes" and numerous pontifical documents have
766 3 | Father a complete filial obedience. But the Father has not
767 1 | generation in its turn, obliges one to acknowledge and to
768 7 | of the Jubilee is in fact obtained at the cost of setting out
769 Intro | and very fittingly on the occasion of Pentecost, an Apostolic
770 | off
771 5 | the sins by which they offended me and apostatized from
772 5 | the Lord and accept the offer of the great pardon, as
773 6 | Church there are enough older people able to understand
774 3 | He states that the little ones have the revelation of the
775 7 | deepening of true knowledge of oneself, as a creature and as a
776 7(69) | Paul Vl, Address for the opening of the Second Session of
777 4 | gives the heart a catholic openness to the world of people,
778 5 | Holy Year when the Church opens more abundantly to all the
779 5 | of the way he stood such opposition from sinners and then you
780 Conclu | communities become centers of optimism, where all the members resolutely
781 3 | abandonment, like that of the orphan: tears and lamentation,
782 | ours
783 | ourselves
784 6 | a senile and definitely out-of-date aspect of a commercial,
785 1 | remain indifferent to the outward and inward witness that
786 5 | all you who labor and are overburdened, and I will give you rest.
787 5 | things supernatural? Have we overestimated the spiritual aspirations
788 3 | which spreads out like an overflowing torrent when the time of "
789 Intro | all our affliction, I am overjoyed." [3] Yes, it is for us,
790 3 | to a certain extent the painful trial of a woman in travail
791 3 | lamentation, while the world parades its gloating satisfaction.
792 1 | fortune an(l artificial paradises cannot assuage. Do people
793 5 | but to achieve therein His paradoxical work of transfiguration. ~ ~
794 Conclu | for us in His love? Let participation in this celebration be at
795 6 | among many young people, partly betrays a senile and definitely
796 Conclu | accent to the Memorial of Pascal: "Joy, joy, joy, tears of
797 2 | appear at the time of the new Pasch and new Exodus. At that
798 3(39) | Praeconium Paschale. ~
799 1 | deeper than those of the past; but they have taken on
800 7 | doubt the strength of the Pastor.... Thus there is, in full
801 Intro(2)| Apostolic Exhortation, Paterna cum benevolentia, AAS 67 (
802 7 | must render witness humbly, patiently and perseveringly -- even
803 4(49) | Epistula ad Romanos, Vll, 2: Patres Apostolici, ed. F. S. Funk,
804 4(50) | Natali apostolorum Petri et Pauli, Vl; PL 54, 426; cf. Jn.
805 3 | voice."[19] ~ ~Let us now pause to contemplate the person
806 1 | and sanctified love; the peaceful joy of nature and silence;
807 4 | nuptials of the Lamb. It is peacefully stretched between the moment
808 1 | happiness, for the many peoples deprived of them. Such solidarity
809 | per
810 1 | and satisfaction of duty performed; the transparent joy of
811 7 | great are the needs and the perils of the present age, so vast
812 6 | how can those who in every period of this history more intensely
813 7 | that there may be raised permanently here below, in unison with
814 6 | kingdom, must be able to perpetuate herself, and therefore renew
815 3 | when people abuse you and persecute you and speak all kinds
816 3 | heaven; this is how they persecuted the prophets before you."[45] ~ ~
817 7 | witness humbly, patiently and perseveringly -- even though it be amid
818 2 | history of ancient Israel. It persists and is unfailingly reborn
819 7 | call of the Spirit, in a personal manner, as a disciple of
820 1 | before manifesting Himself personally according to the mode of
821 Conclu | daily life, so tactful and persuasive for putting sinners back
822 Intro(1)| Cf. Phil. 4:4-5; Ps. 145:18. ~
823 3 | the Crucified, from His pierced heart and His glorified
824 4 | footsteps numbers of Holy Year pilgrims are endeavoring to follow.
825 3 | resurrection of Jesus is the seal placed by the Father on the value
826 1 | human joys that the Creator places in our path: the elating
827 3 | He always does what is pleasing to His Father: it is His
828 1 | multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty
829 1 | which, beyond all passing pleasures, would constitute true happiness,
830 4 | because we have received this pledge (of the Spirit of sonship),
831 4 | eternal life? For if simple pledges, enveloping man on all sides,
832 4 | promised to the Church: Mater plena sanctae laetitiae. And it
833 4 | his arms. He enjoys the plenitude of salvation, holding Him
834 1 | one to acknowledge and to plumb the immense gap that always
835 1 | supreme and immutable good.[8] Poets, artists, thinkers, but
836 5 | Year from the different points of the compass, whether
837 4 | the least signs of God, pondering them in her heart. Not that
838 1 | Gaudium et spes" and numerous pontifical documents have indeed insisted
839 Conclu | the twelfth year of our Pontificate. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
840 7(73) | anniversario assumptionis suae ad Pontificatum, 4: PL 54, 155-156. ~
841 3 | see the Word accepted, the possessed delivered, a sinful woman
842 1 | Revelation can open up this possibility and grace can bring about
843 Intro | in the Church: may joy be poured out in hearts together with
844 7 | towards world coexistence and powerless to achieve it, that there
845 5 | rediscover the meaning and the practice of the sacrament of Reconciliation.
846 3(39) | Praeconium Paschale. ~
847 1 | they are present in our prayers and our affection. We do
848 7 | and in perfect accord she preaches it, teaches it and transmits
849 7 | in truth except where the preaching of the faith is accepted
850 6 | fulfill the hope of the preceding generations, the very hope
851 4 | Peter and Paul, exclaims: "Precious in the eyes of God is the
852 6 | she fail spontaneously and preferably to recognize herself in
853 3 | Father and in the Son, and a preference given to the kingdom. The
854 6 | however debilitating the prejudice diffused everywhere today,
855 Conclu | source of Christian joy, the preparation for the eternal feast. ~ ~
856 1 | times do we urge you to prepare a world, one more suitable
857 Conclu | this banquet which Christ prepares for us in His love? Let
858 Intro | the world believers are preparing to celebrate the coming
859 1 | to serene old age, as a presentiment of the divine mystery. ~ ~
860 7 | the authentic tradition preserved in Rome,[74] "how good,
861 7 | preside over his See, and preserves an endless sharing with
862 7 | Peter does not cease to preside over his See, and preserves
863 7 | prison, nor chains, nor the pressures of the crowd nor the threats
864 5 | fast-moving world, too often prevents them from enjoying daily
865 7 | sharing with the Sovereign Priest. The firmness that he received
866 5 | spiritual directors, the priests and those who collaborate
867 7 | full vigor and life, in the Prince of the Apostles, this love
868 3 | Church as the inexhaustible principle of her joy as the bride
869 7 | neither by the confinement of prison, nor chains, nor the pressures
870 1 | still another level. For the problem seems to be, above all,
871 3 | Thus the Spirit, who proceeds from the Father and the
872 4 | love of God for Himself procures the maximum of joy[52] In
873 5 | deeply involved in family, professional and social responsibility.
874 1 | its song. We sympathize profoundly with those over whom poverty
875 3 | according to the world, will be promptly changed into a spiritual
876 3 | Son's sacrifice: it is the proof of the Father's fidelity,
877 2 | glorious and supernatural joy, prophesied for the new Jerusalem redeemed
878 3 | his hopes. As in fact the prophet foretold: "The people that
879 6 | suddenly been deprived of protective traditions, then bitterly
880 5 | universal convocation. Everyone, provided he makes himself attentive
881 7 | Jerusalem praised by the psalmists. Jesus Himself and Mary
882 2 | repeatedly hymned by the Psalms -- the joy of living with
883 3 | opportunities of noting the psychic inability of man to accept "
884 Conclu | is not just a matter of psychology. It is also a fruit of the
885 3(44) | 1 Pt. 5:3. ~
886 3 | delivered, a sinful woman or a publican like Zacchaeus converted,
887 1 | the transparent joy of purity, service and sharing; the
888 2 | His will according to His purpose which He set forth in Christ
889 Conclu | tactful and persuasive for putting sinners back on the road
890 3 | this Spirit will never be quenched in the course of history.
891 6 | attention that is given to it quickly becomes nostalgic or ridiculous.
892 5 | God's call reaches you. Quite the contrary; we feel that
893 3 | of God made man. If Jesus radiates such peace, such assurance,
894 6 | come to you. We urge you to raise up your eyes, your hearts,
895 1 | saw that it was good."[6] Raising up man in the setting of
896 3 | and celebrated a whole range of human joys, those simple
897 4 | Christian joy. ~ ~In the first rank is the Virgin Mary, full
898 | rather
899 6 | generation young Christians must ratify, with full consciousness
900 5 | think of all those who have reached the evening of their lives.
901 5 | divided when God's call reaches you. Quite the contrary;
902 6 | excesses, the instinctive reaction of many young people against
903 Conclu | Without departing from a realistic viewpoint, let Christian
904 5 | joy, in the midst of the realities which make up their lives
905 3 | of the kingdom brought to realization can only spring from the
906 6 | Then the sower and the reaper will share the same joy
907 Conclu | the fundamental and simple reasons for joy? God has so loved
908 4 | are multiplied in their rebirth."[50] ~ ~Nevertheless, there
909 2 | persists and is unfailingly reborn in the course of tragic
910 3 | the glorified Christ. He recalls to her mind, through the
911 6 | being which is naturally receptive to the appeals and demands
912 6 | of divine Truth finally recognized in the Church: gaudium de
913 4 | holding Him in whom God reconciles the world to Himself."[51]
914 3 | joy of the shepherd who recovers his sheep or of the woman
915 3 | certainty of sharing in the redemption wrought by the Lord and
916 2 | unheard-of outpouring of redemptive love will only appear at
917 4 | for the Lord, St. Francis rediscovers through holy poverty something,
918 3 | difficulties of human life, is not reduced to groping for the way;
919 6 | Confirmation. ~ ~In this regard our age of profound change
920 6 | If in fact the Church, regenerated by the Holy Spirit, in a
921 1 | On the contrary, in many regions and sometimes in our midst,
922 6 | sacrament of Baptism and reinforced in the sacrament of Confirmation. ~ ~
923 5 | life? "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one repentant
924 3 | there is an incommunicable relationship of love which is identified
925 1 | secure at least a minimum of relief, well-being, security and
926 4 | of cruelty can destroy a religion founded on the mystery of
927 7 | intention of this Church. The remainder is in the order of signs
928 5 | spiritual tradition, we remind the faithful and their pastors
929 7 | reason why we ourself must render witness humbly, patiently
930 1 | witness that God the Creator renders to Himself in the midst
931 3 | in praise, thanksgiving, reparation and supplication. Then we
932 2 | question also of the real joy repeatedly hymned by the Psalms --
933 5 | moment of mankind's life: "Repent, and believe the Good News."[59]
934 5 | rejoicing in heaven over one repentant sinner than over ninety-nine
935 Conclu | Christians a privileged place of replenishment: the celebration of the
936 4 | brother, and the witnesses report that his interior peace,
937 1 | They are better known, reported by the mass media -- at
938 3 | the human spirit's finding repose and a deep satisfaction
939 3 | granted on a steep road which requires a total confidence in the
940 3 | Himself to the Son, without reserve and without ceasing, in
941 6 | endures. Then new workers, resolute and fervent, will in their
942 Conclu | optimism, where all the members resolutely endeavor to perceive the
943 5 | invitation that is loving, respectful and pressing at the same
944 7 | remains the inner decision to respond to the call of the Spirit,
945 5 | freedom and in joy. It is the response to an invitation coming
946 5 | professional and social responsibility. The burden of their charges,
947 1 | Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You"?[10]
948 2 | experience of liberation and restoration (at least foretold), having
949 2 | death, when this only son is restored to him alive, a prefiguring
950 1 | Already it secures peace, restores hope, strength, communion,
951 4 | manifestation. Joy is the result of a human-divine communion,
952 5 | and merciful, and the son returned to life? "There will be
953 3 | father who embraces his son returning from a prodigal life, and
954 6 | newness of the divine mystery revealed in Jesus Christ? Has not
955 3 | passing awareness. It is the reverberation in His human consciousness
956 3 | Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven;
957 4 | unceasingly clothed with a richer harvest, when the grains
958 5 | more abundantly to all the riches of God's mercy. "The promise
959 6 | quickly becomes nostalgic or ridiculous. But this is not true in
960 5 | has taken his place at the right of God's throne. Think of
961 4 | covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself
962 3 | the new presence of the Risen Christ dispensing to His
963 1 | attentive to the appeal that rises from man's heart, from the
964 6 | moment of her history the rising generation should in some
965 4 | in many countries, who, risking everything for Christ, could
966 4 | has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
967 4 | Great, extolling from this Roman See the martyrdom of the
968 4(49) | Saint Ignatius, Epistula ad Romanos, Vll, 2: Patres Apostolici,
969 3 | humble. Whenever we say the rosary, the joyful mysteries thus
970 2(15) | 60:15; 62:3; Gal. 4:27; Rv. 21:1-4. ~
971 4 | eternity, they already receive sacramentally the first fruits of eschatological
972 5 | it to perfection; for the sake of the joy which was still
973 4 | of Avila, St. Francis de Sales and St. John Bosco. ~ ~We
974 4 | the Church: Mater plena sanctae laetitiae. And it is with
975 1 | life; the joy of chaste and sanctified love; the peaceful joy of
976 7 | Himself and Mary His Mother sang on earth as they went up
977 3 | hungry now: you shall be satisfied. Happy you who weep now:
978 4 | voluntarily to death in order to save an unknown brother, and
979 Conclu | the look of those who are saved. The joy of being Christian,
980 1 | teach them once more, how to savor in a simple way the many
981 4 | living water that murmurs and says: 'Come to the Father.'"[49] ~ ~
982 3 | resurrection of Jesus is the seal placed by the Father on
983 7(69) | Address for the opening of the Second Session of the Council,
984 6 | for true renewal, not be secretly in harmony with a Church
985 1 | obviously unite their efforts to secure at least a minimum of relief,
986 1 | commandment. Already it secures peace, restores hope, strength,
987 3 | particularly gives witness to this seed of joy. The miracles of
988 3 | our lives, which are like seeds of a higher reality, are
989 6 | those who love it enough to seek it tenaciously. By disposing
990 4 | attitude of preoccupation with self. Joy gives the heart a catholic
991 4 | faithful cannot but appear as "self-multiplying,'' just like the life and
992 3 | man's heart the sins of self-sufficiency and to manifest to the Father
993 6 | people, partly betrays a senile and definitely out-of-date
994 3 | concrete attitude or His sensitivity. He admires the birds of
995 6 | are not giving way to a sentimental cult of youth. Considered
996 7(69) | of the Council, part 1, September 29, 1963: AAS 55 (1963),
997 3(40) | Sequence of the Solemnity of Pentecost. ~
998 1 | of wondering childhood to serene old age, as a presentiment
999 4 | that his interior peace, serenity and joy somehow transformed
1000 Conclu | peace and hope which surpass setbacks and sufferings. It is the
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